B2: Watching Poll. Sometime ago I found the Heathers series on sale at Vudu. I finally got around to starting to watch the series D/B+ ??? -- (edited)
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JD (aka Jason Dean)
Jan 27 '20, 08:43
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It took me two viewings to complete the pilot. er, and some degree of beer to get around to being willing to rejoin
The Pilot....I guess there's Easter Eggs. But to me, it was like they were sledgehammer shaped / sized Easter Eggs that were just smacking me upside the head..you are watching something based on Heathers. Not like we're cute and if you're paying attention but like a four foot tall bottle of Hull Clean
And there was the updating of the dialogue. I get that there's the whole social media and this is definitely a different world but How Just? and JD's Saltuos and something utter grated on me on the first attempt to watch.
I had to stop as I didn't know if I was more laughing / cringing / crying after about 30 of 45 min.
But about 24 hours later I did start again and finished the Pilot and well, it started to significantly deviate from the homage / paraody of the movie. I watched the next episode and I'm pretty sure I'm going to see this out. Granted it wasn't good enough for me to binge watch but I was able to watch the second episode without turning it off (faint praise??)
While definitely not Winona, I adore the actress playing Veronica so perhaps there's a bunch to be said about that character
Conversely, I think that JD is a really bad actor. I kind of get that his dialogue is almost Star Wars like (One can write this shit but nobody talks like this) but still.... I will admit that it could be some association as every time I see him, I think of Jess from Gilmore Girls.
Bunch of recognizable character actors in the adult roles who are fine.
No real opinions yet on the rest of the Heathers but Betty is fun
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